Heart and mind
[She] probably knew this, intellectually. But like all other human beings, she did not always act according to her understanding. She had lost too many of the people that she loved; when she felt one more of them slipping away, her response was visceral, not intellectual. [He] had come into her life as a healer, a protector. It was his job to keep her from being afraid, and now she was afraid, and angry at him for having failed her.
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[She] had lost too many strong figures in her life, too many people she had depended on. Her parents. She might be protective and possessive with whom she though of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feared that they would be taken away from her, she withdrew from them; she stopped permitting herself to need them.
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[She] had lost too many strong figures in her life, too many people she had depended on. Her parents. She might be protective and possessive with whom she though of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feared that they would be taken away from her, she withdrew from them; she stopped permitting herself to need them.